What are you Playing Now? Whatever happens, at least we're out of that mudhole, Gilded Vale.

[Hawke64]

Completed Wasteland 3. An excellent RPG and I wholeheartedly recommend it.
Discovered that the DLC are online-only on Steam, so installed the GOG version (had it on both platforms for co-op reasons).
Completed the first DLC, "The Battle of Steeltown", which was infuriating on many levels.

[Gorth]

1 hour ago, bugarup said:

re: Pathfinder recommendations (can't quote or forum eats the post):  it's a D&D-like with romances, Bruce.  Granted, they're nowhere near as elaborate as Bioware's, but they're there. 

I would actually make the counterclaim, they are way more elaborate than Bioware's "nice dress, lets have sex!" style romances. Not that I'm a fan of that whole romance gimmick in my crpgs in the first place, unless it somehow contributes to the overall story 

[Humanoid]

I looked into it a bit more and was surprised to see it has a turn-based mode, if only because I remember reading that Kingmaker had no such thing on launch (and now I've learned that it was added by a mod). That certainly helps sell it to me. Well, not in a literal sense, because I'll probably only try it once it lands on Game Pass, but yeah.

Speaking of turn-based, I recently started Solasta's Lost Valley DLC, again in co-op of course. Seems to be a decent improvement, travel times are less oppressive, there's some limited choices now, and level design is a bit broader. Disappointed in not having access to any new classes compared to the base game, but no way am I paying for class DLC packs that add nothing else.

 

EDIT: I know it's in a current Humble Bundle, and also on a fairly deep discount at GOG, but still too much for something that's probably a bit too hardcore for me. Incidentally the bundle made me roll my eyes a little at the BG "Faces of Good and Evil" DLC which is, uh, six portraits. I'd rather have horse armour...

Edited October 10, 2022 by Humanoid

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

1 hour ago, Humanoid said:

I looked into it a bit more and was surprised to see it has a turn-based mode, if only because I remember reading that Kingmaker had no such thing on launch (and now I've learned that it was added by a mod).

While the TB mod does exist for KM, the Devs did release the game with turn-based as part of one of the major updates.

[Hurlshort]

I enjoyed Kingmaker's TB mode, it made it much more enjoyable for me. 

[majestic]

9 hours ago, Gorth said:

I would actually make the counterclaim, they are way more elaborate than Bioware's "nice dress, lets have sex!" style romances. Not that I'm a fan of that whole romance gimmick in my crpgs in the first place, unless it somehow contributes to the overall story 

Yeah, it's basically "Hey, I caught you in the act of killing someone and consuming their flesh in some creepy sacrificial ritual, how about we do it atop the still warm corpse?", which, wow, is so much more involved than Viconia or Morrigan, which I assume you're referencing here.

Edited October 10, 2022 by majestic

[marelooke]

Getting near the end of my 2nd Cyberpunk playthrough, trying to get the Autojock achievement but having some trouble finding whatever the last few cars are that I need. Maybe the messages from the fixers that are supposed to sell them are just coming really slow (I'm done with each and every Gig, just some NCPD callsigns and Sinnerman left)

Also poking some at Conan Exiles, seeing whether their claims of being able to finish the battlepass easily within the timeframe are true. For sure the whole thing is a bloody nuisance though. It's an annoying list of chores and every day you get a few "boosters" that "multiply" the XP individual chores give you by 10x. Meaning that without those boosts it'd be one hell of a slow boring slog. Additionally it also means that if you want to optimize you only want to use the boosts on the high xp chores.

Btw, I haven't bought the battle pass, just to make that clear. I'm just going through the free track.

Edited October 10, 2022 by marelooke

[Zoraptor]

15 minutes ago, majestic said:

Yeah, it's basically "Hey, I caught you in the act of killing someone and consuming their flesh in some creepy sacrificial ritual, how about we do it atop the still warm corpse?", which, wow, is so much more involved than Viconia or Morrigan, which I assume you're referencing here.

Come now, it's not like all the romance options are bonkers cannibals though.

Only two of them? No, I don't want to know the answer...

That also has to be the funniest 'romantic' interaction this side of the unintentionally hilarious DAO sexy time cutscenes.

[majestic]

19 minutes ago, Zoraptor said:

Come now, it's not like all the romance options are bonkers cannibals though.

Only two of them? No, I don't want to know the answer...

That also has to be the funniest 'romantic' interaction this side of the unintentionally hilarious DAO sexy time cutscenes.

The game has great choices for romance in general.

Not one, but two nutjob cannibal women. One male character posessed by an eldritch horror from beyond the veil of reality, a pushy half-goat, half-reptile, a succubus on a road to redemption and a... well, actually, I guess a cleric worshipping the Goddess of Beauty and looking for his brother is the oddly normal one out of the bunch.

Huh, how did that happen?

Bruce and romance spoilers:

Spoiler

He'll end up really really really liking Arue but would eventually just run off with Cammy because Arue blue-balls the MC until she's finally ascended. Besides, taking invisibility potions and going at it in your office in front of other people is exactly his thing.

 

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

53 minutes ago, majestic said:

Hey, I caught you in the act of killing someone and consuming their flesh in some creepy sacrificial ritual, how about we do it atop the still warm corpse?

[InsaneCommander]

2 hours ago, majestic said:

The game has great choices for romance in general.

Not one, but two nutjob cannibal women. One male character posessed by an eldritch horror from beyond the veil of reality, a pushy half-goat, half-reptile, a succubus on a road to redemption and a... well, actually, I guess a cleric worshipping the Goddess of Beauty and looking for his brother is the oddly normal one out of the bunch.

Huh, how did that happen?

Don't forget Pathfinder: Kingmaker.

 

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

7 minutes ago, InsaneCommander said:

Don't forget Pathfinder: Kingmaker.

 

Threescome DLC confirmed.

[Humanoid]

I mean, based on the description of the other romanceable characters above, I'm assuming the threesome option is probably just romancing a two-headed ogre.

[InsaneCommander]

3 hours ago, majestic said:

Yeah, it's basically "Hey, I caught you in the act of killing someone and consuming their flesh in some creepy sacrificial ritual, how about we do it atop the still warm corpse?", which, wow, is so much more involved than Viconia or Morrigan, which I assume you're referencing here.

 

2 minutes ago, KP From Another World said:

Threescome DLC confirmed.

Don't give them any ideas or the other cannibal might join in that ritual.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

32 minutes ago, InsaneCommander said:

 

Don't give them any ideas or the other cannibal might join in that ritual.

There's a far worse fate than that happening.

[InsaneCommander]

5 minutes ago, KP From Another World said:

There's a far worse fate than that happening.

[Gorth]

3 hours ago, majestic said:

The game has great choices for romance in general.

Not one, but two nutjob cannibal women. One male character posessed by an eldritch horror from beyond the veil of reality, a pushy half-goat, half-reptile, a succubus on a road to redemption and a... well, actually, I guess a cleric worshipping the Goddess of Beauty and looking for his brother is the oddly normal one out of the bunch.

Huh, how did that happen?

Bruce and romance spoilers:

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He'll end up really really really liking Arue but would eventually just run off with Cammy because Arue blue-balls the MC until she's finally ascended. Besides, taking invisibility potions and going at it in your office in front of other people is exactly his thing.

 

You forgot that old woman who likes young men a quarter of her own age, as well as spider woman (if you like girls with legs, she's definitely your thing)

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

3 minutes ago, InsaneCommander said:

[InsaneCommander]

[Humanoid]

I can honestly say that the Fade puzzles were the best part of Dragon Age 1.

 

*ducks for cover*

[Zoraptor]

1 hour ago, InsaneCommander said:

 

Don't give them any ideas or the other cannibal might join in that ritual.

The Kalikke/ Kanerah romance(s) from Kingmaker actually were dlc, weren't they? Not sure if that's technically a threesome or not though, since they're in the same body.

Protag/ Camellia/ Wenduag would be up there with a Jaethal romance in terms of things I'd do just for the lols.

Edited October 11, 2022 by Zoraptor

[bugarup]

  And if you're a Trickster, you can do

Spoiler

a sh†t demon (yes, like in "Dogma") and Nocticula's brother-lover right in the corner of your Lynchian Council room with councilors, your party and Nocticula's corpse still present.

Now if this doesn't sell Bruce on Wrathfinder, I don't know what does. 

 

Edited October 11, 2022 by bugarup
I had to log into --ing Edge to post. Edge, Carl!

[majestic]

6 hours ago, Gorth said:

You forgot that old woman who likes young men a quarter of her own age, as well as spider woman (if you like girls with legs, she's definitely your thing)

The silly little cat is one of the two cannibals. The other one barely counts, but it does trigger the achievements, so yeah, I forgot her, although outside of Elves and Dwarves, she'll have a hard time consorting with anyone her actual age...

[Hawke64]

The polyamorous option is present in the base game (Kingmaker) and they are surprisingly chill and friendly. The "secret" romance, though, is "why...".

Edited October 11, 2022 by Hawke64
The forum ate the spoiler tag.

[BruceVC]

On 10/11/2022 at 2:42 AM, Gorth said:

You forgot that old woman who likes young men a quarter of her own age, as well as spider woman (if you like girls with legs, she's definitely your thing)

This game sounds fantastic, I dont much about Pathfinder and that includes the Romance arcs

I just want to know if you can Romance the succubus